Slow browsing of Netware 4/5 server from W2K

[jacobisherwood]

We seem to have a problem browsing Netware 4 and 5 servers from Windows 2000 Pro. I have tried SP2 and Client 4.8 but this makes no difference.

When you open a folder it seems to be fine, until you scroll along about 15 files using the arrow keys. It's as though it is caching file information. It then pauses for ages and you can scroll another 15 or so. You also get the same problem if you just click randomly somewhere on a file.

I've also tried uninstalling Indexing from W2K, disabling Netbios and just using IP, but this made no difference. When the machine is pausing like this the usage time on the server goes up to about 40%. I thought that it may be a compression problem, but we have servers that aren't using compression.

The problem seems to be not so bad on NW5, but it is sitll there. Any help would be appreciated as we have hundreds of people with this problem.

 

[DrGreen26]

There was a post on Novell's support connection website that discusses this particular issue. Seems there was a registry edit that needed to be done to get Windows 2K to work properly. I dont remember the TID number but if you go to

http://support.novell.com

and do a search for WIN2k slow, I am sure you will find the right answer.

HTH

Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

CNE 4.11 and CNE 5 certified. BS Degree in MIS. Working in the industry for 8 years.

I work with NT servers, NDS for NT as well.

 

[yvfwc]

This helped some for a similar problem I had:

In NW client properties -
SET client file caching enabled = OFF

On Server -
Apply the FILESYS.NLM to the server (see:

http://support.novell.com/servlet/tidfinder/2959385

and

http://support.novell.com/servlet/tidfinder/2959717)

Cheers,

Mark ;-)

 

[cen001]

Try this registery hack, it fixes the problem.

Also install V4.8 of the client plus SP3. Important

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]

 

[eusebius]

There are a number of registry hacks and tweaks you can use to improve network browse performance - check out the document at

http://www.ithowto.com/novell/clientspeed.htm

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eusebius